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| Thread ID: 68324 | 2006-04-24 11:39:00 | How can RAM Die | gum digger (6100) | Press F1 |
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| 449119 | 2006-04-24 11:39:00 | Hi This post is related to this (www.pressf1.co.nz) post. So i was wondering how can RAM Die all of a sudden. I know there are some quality chips and some rubbish quality ones out there but how can they run for a while and just die. |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 449120 | 2006-04-24 11:50:00 | Why not ask this in the other post? Just because most ICs tend to die early or go for a long time doesn't mean that they can't just die at any stage. Karma, fate, murphy's law etc etc. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 449121 | 2006-04-24 14:31:00 | Heat, power fluctuations, poor PSU, poor motherboard voltage regulation, static electricity, bad/faulty chips can all cause faults. I've had a few sticks fail on me, even Corsair who are supposed to be the top dog. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 449122 | 2006-04-24 18:14:00 | ram is simply a form of machinery.........ever hear of entropy ?.......EVERYthing 'dies' sometime...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 449123 | 2006-04-25 00:17:00 | ram is simply a form of machinery.........ever hear of entropy ?.......EVERYthing 'dies' sometime...... Not ME, I was helping to build Stonehenge. (I feel that old on this very wet Wanganui day) PJ :waughh: :waughh: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 449124 | 2006-04-25 02:33:00 | There are five common things that cause RAM to fail GD: 1) Handling without antistatic precautions. 2) Handling without antistatic precautions. 3) Progressive failure through handling without antistatic precautions. 4) Sod's law (only happens if the RAM is very expensive, very hard to find, or critical to something you need to do within the next 15 minutes to meet a deadline). 5)Normal electronic failure. 1-3 are the most common, because everybody thinks it won't happen to them: "I've been handling RAM like this for years and never had a problem before". Straight-out unprovoked electronic failures are at the bottom of the list, so think carefully about how you handle the replacements and take proper anti-static precautions. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 449125 | 2006-04-25 02:56:00 | 3) Progressive failure through handling without antistatic precautions. Most likely this cause. Static damage is not like whacking it with a hammer - it can die over time. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 449126 | 2006-04-25 03:11:00 | During the war, Gremlins, though small, were fairly big creatures, but as time went by, first with the advent of the transistor, through early ICs to todays nanotechnology, Gremlins have become invisible to the naked eye. But, they are still around, and have multiplied enormously since PCs have been common in every home. en.wikipedia.org |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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